Ege 15, Missal

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Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Ege 15

Description:Hengst Missal ; Beauvais Missal One leaf - Not bound. - From a manuscript bequeathed to Beauvais Cathedral
by Robert de Hangest (d. 1356); the cathedral library was dispersed at the French Revolution; a group of its best
manuscripts re-appeared in the sale of the architect Gay, Lyons, October 1833; Henri-Auguste Brólemann (1775-1869), of
Lyons, and by descent to his grandson Arthur Brólemann (1826-1904) and his great-granddaughter Madame Etienne Mallet;
her sale, Sotheby's, 5 May 1926, lot 161, to Permain; Otto F. Ege (1888-1951), who cut it up.

Notes: -The Lilly leaf is no. 15 in a boxed set Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe: XII-XVI
century limited to 40 copies (of which the Lilly set is no. 24), assembled by Otto Ege (1888-1951); cf. Chalmers 2005, p.
114, no. 51. Other leaves from the Missal of Robert de Hangest include Cleveland Museum of Art, 82.141; Ohio, Oberlin
College, Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1993.16; leaves in published cataloges include Faye and Bond 1962, p. 212, no. 110
(Boston Public Library, MS 1538); L. W. Foss in Oliver 1985, pp. 39-40, no. 63 (the Endowment for Biblical Research);
Boffey and Edwards 2002, pp. 45-46 (University of Colorado at Boulder); and Gwara 2007, p. 22, no. 30 (University of
South Carolina). Leaves still appear for sale from time to time, such as Sotheby's, 19 June 2001, lot 9.

Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 1

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Language: Latin Country: France Century: 13th

Part 1: One leaf
Description: - Parchment - 288 x 199 mm - Apparently ruled in plummet (very faint), ruled for 21 lines (although
interrupted by bars of music), each column 197 mm. by 59 mm. with 15 mm. between columns.

Country: France Cardinal point: northern

Region: City: Beauvais, probably

Assigned Date: s. XIII€*X Searchable Date Range: 1285 - 1299
Dated by scribe: No Inscribed Date:

Document: No Number of Scribes:

Script: Gothic

Music: Music in black neumes on 4-line red staves.

Figurative Decoration: 8 illuminated initials, 2-line, in colours with long branching marginal extensions.
Other Decoration: Some capitals touched in red, 7 calligraphic capitals with yellowish wash.

Notes: Written in two sizes of script, the larger writing in a liturgical textualis 'sine pedibus' (with flattened-off
downstrokes), rubrics and smaller script in a slightly less formal textualis. Latin

Number of Texts: 1

Text 1: f. 1ir-v

Title: Missal

Language(s): Latin

Notes: The leaf is from the summer portion of the Sanctoral in a Missal, from the secret on the feast of Saint John
before the Latin Gate (6 May), followed by the translation of Saint Nicholas (9 May), and Saints Gordian and
Epimachus (10 May) as far as the collect.

recto The manuscript leaf is a splendid specimen of French gothic
illumination. Written in two sizes of script, the larger writing in a
liturgical textualis 'sine pedibus' (with flattened-off downstrokes),
rubrics and smaller script in a slightly less formal te

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